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The National Waterways Act, 2016 is an Act of Parliament of India. It was tabled in Lok Sabha by Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on 5 May 2015. The Act merges 5 existing Acts which have declared the 5 National Waterways and proposes 101 additional National Waterways. The Act came into force from 12 April 2016. [1]
There are 111 officially notified Inland National Waterways (NWs) in India identified for the purposes of inland water transport, [1] as per The National Waterways Act, 2016. Out of the 111 NWs, 106 were created in 2016. [2] The NW network covers around 20,275.5 km. NW-1, 2, & 3 are already operational.
To increase the share of waterways in inland transport, the National Waterways Act, 2016 was passed which proposed 106 additional National Waterways. [4] This has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of transportation and lower the nation's carbon footprint by moving traffic from surface roads and railroads to waterways. [5]
It is the first National Waterway in the country with 24-hour navigation facilities along the entire stretch. It has been extended to Kozhikode by the National Waterways Act, 2016. [1] The National Waterway 3 mainly passes through the previous Thiruvananthapuram–Shoranur canal.
The National Waterways Act, 2016 has extended the length of NW-4 from 1,095 km (680 mi) to 2,890 km (1,800 mi) by connecting the Krishna and Godavari Rivers. [5] The Project would be undertaken in 3 phases with first phase beginning in October, 2017 and to be completed by June, 2019 [ 6 ]
Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is the statutory authority in charge of the waterways in India. It was constituted under IWAI Act-1985 by the Parliament of India. [1] Its headquarters is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. India has an extensive network of inland waterways in the form of rivers, canals, backwaters and creeks. The total ...
It was declared a National Waterway in November 2008. The NW-5 consists of the stretches from Talcher to Dhamra on the Brahmani River a distance of 265 km including the Kharsua and Dhamra river systems, the Geonkhali –Charbatia stretch of the East Coast Canal of 217 km, the Charbatia–Dhamra stretch of Matai River of 40 km and the Mangalgadi ...
National Waterway 2 (NW-2) is a section of the Brahmaputra River having a length of 891 km between the Bangladesh border near Dhubri and Sadiya in Assam. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History